Spring Cleaning

These past six years I have lived on my own with no roommates (aside from the first three months), and I've loved it. However, in a month and a half I'm moving and getting a place with one of my friends. This is going to be a big adjustment for me. I decided I would start packing two months out so I'm not in a big hurry right before it's time to actually move. One thing I've learned through this whole process, you accumulate a pile of stuff in just six years. 

In my case... mainly clothes. I haven't had a washer or dryer in my house since I moved out. When it's time to do laundry I have to pack up all my dirty clothes and take them to my parents house and do them. (Most of the time my Mom does them... Thanks Mom.)  After they are all washed and dried.. I have to pack them back up to lug them back home and up the stairs to fold and put them away. Laundry has always been a hatred of mine. I found that just going and buying new stuff, when I didn't feel like taking laundry, became less of a hassle. Downside: I have accumulated a lot of clothes.

The first load of clothes to be donated.

I decided that I really do not want to pack up and move all these clothes when I don't even wear most of them. Last night I decided to begin the process of going through and donating what I don't like or don't wear... I ended up with six bags of clothes... and that's just the beginning. On the agenda tonight is to go through my shoes and get rid of a bunch.

Sidenote: I discovered the joys of using the vacuum seal space saver bags. OH MY GOSH! Where have these been all my life and why haven't I been using them? Since Mother Nature decided to skip Spring and go straight to Summer without any signs of 30 degree weather, I decided to vacuum seal all my winter coats...holy amazeballs... I'm in love. Don't think you have to get the super expensive Ziploc ones.. I bought some really cheap ones and they work wonderfully too! After seeing the amazingness, I decided to pack up most of my hockey jerseys and vacuum seal them. Screw moving boxes, I'm about to go buy a bunch of these bags and move stuff that way...definitely won't be as bulky as boxes will be.

I got these at Deals! 6 bags for $5! What a deal.

Got these at Dollar General

Although I still have a lot to do before I move, I'm really excited to be getting the house decluttered and dejunked. (Like my made up words?!) I have a bad habit of keeping things that I'll "maybe use one day". Luckily I've been doing really well and just throwing everything out. Yay for Spring Cleaning!

Do you guys have any helpful hints for cleaning, decluttering, or moving?!?!? Or maybe some tips and pointers for living with a roommate!? I know it sounds crazy.. but it's the little things I'm going to miss about living alone.  

I hope everyone has a fantastic weekend and enjoys the wonderful weather. I know I will be outside all weekend soaking up as much Vitamin D as I can! 

No More Pencils, No More Books

No More Teacher's Dirty Looks

School's Out For The Summer

I've had that song ringing in my head all weekend. I'm so excited to have a 3 month break from school before hitting the books again. It's funny how stressed out I get myself over school, when I could have cared less in high school. Everything dealing with school came easy to me when I was younger. I never had to study and always did really well. Now-a-days if I don't study.. you might as well forget it. One thing I want to work on for next semester is to not be a cram studier.. it's such a bad habit. Evidently it's been working for me though. I checked all of my grades and I got an A in all of my classes this semester! Yay meeee!!! I'm so proud of myself! 

As we all know, yesterday was Mother's Day. I hope everyone had a fantastic day! Yesterday I spent the day with my family. My Mom, Dad, Grandmother, Sister, Brother-in-law, and I all went out to lunch to celebrate the day. After much deliberation, we decided to go to Pirate's Cove. (Delicious) It was quite the perfect afternoon for having lunch on the patio! After many laughs and great food we headed back home to figure out what the rest of the day would consist of.  We went through many ideas of what we could do, and Mom decides she wants to head to the zoo. So the 5 of us (Grandma went home) packed in the car and headed to the zoo. Beware of going to the zoo in the spring.. it's evidently mating season for many animals.. I'd check out the animals first before letting my kid see. Someone didn't take that advice yesterday and started yelling, "Maya go, get away" after realizing the animals were doing it. I couldn't tell you what kind of animals they were.. but man were they putting on a show for everyone... AWKWARD.

All in all yesterday was a great day.. now I will leave you with a picture from the zoo.. :)

We were letting out our inner wild sides.